i decided to catch the bus to galway.. i knew i wasnt on the cheapest bus and that bugged me..but i couldnt find the cheap bus station and i couldnt be bothered tromping around in the rain with my big bag.. the people i meet here are all so interesting.. the dublin crowd is for sure a special one.. interesting people to say the least... all these big international capital cities are starting to look the same and blend togehter.. the other night after i met up with the aussies, adn their aussie pack.. im practically an aussie, and was considered an honorary one for the night to make explaining easier.. just how it goes! so went to the store to get the cheapest things we could find.. dan and i noticed a typo on one of the labels saying hte individual cost of the cans was 20cents a liter.. maybe it doesnt seem that amazing to you.. but remember.. im in europe! and ireland nonetheless.. where im pretty sure the only way the country makes money is on alcohol.. so i tried to get my 20c a liter.. but it didnt happen.. then some of the boys i was with were basically harassing the lady in the next line.. she was crazy.. maybe even as drunk as them (they were at the pub all day watching the footy game) so she didnt give me my 20 cents a liter.. but she was dumb enough to give me the 4 pack for the single can price! yes. everyone was jealous. hahah. its weirdly satisfying to get a dirt cheap deal.. and something all us travelers live for.. so we had our few drinks at the hostel and hung out with some english girls who straightened my hair for me! (the first time my hair has been done in 2 months!) and headed to the irish club.. it was interesting..different from the other clubs.. there was a live band playing rock songs.. so we rocked out and had a grand time.. and when we were leaving to go back home, i almost witnessed my first beating of a drunk dude who peed all over hte bouncers car. bad idea. never pee on a bouncers car. so we quickly left the situation and were just fine. theres so many drunk people here day and night its a little out of control. so the next morning i tried to sleep in..but failed as always.. cant miss that free delicious hostel breakfast! haha. toast with nutella and a bowl of cornflakes.. i try to fit in my standard 3 or 4 bowls of cereal to hold me over for most of the morning.. sometimes it works.. then i took the bus to galway.. stopping every 10 mins in rando little irish towns.. they all have a pub or 3 on the corner, green grass and sheep, o and the bus stop obviously.. theyre still much bigger than the towns we went through in iceland.. so i guess its all relative. i can never manage to stay awake on a bus.. but i tried because i wanted to take in teh scenery.. its defintely green and gorgeous.. so i got to my crazy hostel in galway.. apparently i booked the wrong nights online because i would.. and the guy 'struck me a deal' that wasnt a deal at all.. but i went with it. im getting much more lazy in my aging travel days. i met this old irish dude and israeli girl in my room.. and we talked for far too long about people and cultures, and ignorance of americans.. standard. they were a bit older and a bit more insightful though than many of hte other travelers i met. so sana, (kinda like sonna!) the israeli girl and i went out to the pubs so i could get the full irish experience that i didnt feel like i was getting in dublin.. so i got my pint of guniess and we enjoyed a live band in a cute little bar that looked like a castle, kinda sorta almost.. with bajillions of drunk young and old irish men. we chatted with some old dudes who bought us drinks and when i turned to talk to someone else they were all offended and peaced out. the perfect escape! haha. but i feel much more irish cultured now at least!
this morning i woke up too early again and was on a mission to eat a real breakfast.. i went down the road a few steps to the convienience store i was pointed to, and asked the guy if there was a proper grocery store nearby because i was not baout to pay €4 for a yogurt.. and besides.. i wanted some bacon! he started telling me i was crazy because i was up at this hour on a sunday.. he was too? it was like 8:30.. he told me to go home and go back to bed.. no one gets up on sunday before noon.. everyone in ireland is too busy making love so thats what i should be doing.. so i started walking out at my failed grocery trip when this kooky old man comes stumbling in the door, clearly still on the piss, and says 'i know where the grocery store is!' and the store owner and him start a yelling match about open grocery stores.. dont listen to the old drunk man.. dont listen to this kook.. i just stood there confused, especially because they were almost fighting about something that didnt actually affect either one of them... so i went with the drunk old man who promised me a store down teh road.. wasnt sure if it was 20 mins the shop guy said or the 5 the drunk guy siad.. but really..i didnt have anything on the agenda.. luckily i picked the right guy.. so go with the drunk old man over the cranky store man is what ive learned today! haha.. after my delicious breakfast i went on a 'short' day tour..that was over 6 hours.. to see the cliffs of moher.. apparently theyre in the race to be one of the seven wonders of the world.. theyre 200,000 votes short of seventh.. so maybe you want to vote? they were cool.. beautiful with lots of birds.. apparently puffins but i didnt see any still :( anna should've come with me to find the puffins! the cliffs are a lot like the 12 apostles in australia.. except way greener and not on a beach.. ha. .but its what came to mind.. maybe because it was raining in both places when i was there.. i got to experience the lovely all day gray sky and misty air.. a bit more authentic than the sun that kept poking through in dubin! apparently this is also the wettest summer in irish history.. since before 1860 something.. hmm guess ill haveta try back next year?! after the cliffs we stopped at this dolmen.. which is an old Celtic tomb.. its like a baby stonehedge.. with this huge rock on top of two standing up.. apparently if your infertile, you can make babies if you do it on top of the tomb.. this one theyve found over 22 bodies buried there from over 600 years.. o yea.. and its older than the pyramids! crazy! so this random rocks i had no idea i was going to see is the oldest thing ive seen so far. thats kinda cool. then we stopped and took some pictures of a castle.. and i wondered through galway back to the hostel. think im headed to cork tomorrow.. maybe killarney to try to see something of the national park.. o i dont know! so many options!
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